Bird Beak Lab Conclusion

Bird Beak Lab Conclusion

Hypothesis (claim)	Evidence of this occurring?	Explanation of this evidence: Why did this happen?
Individual with better traits leave more offspring	They collected the most food because their beak was best for that	Their beak was easy to quickly grab food and large quantities of it too
Populations begin to look more like the winners	The birds with the beaks that collected the most food had the most kids	This happened because the most food a bird had resulted it the more offspring they had

In this lab we asked the question that which bird beak will collect the most food and have the most offspring. We found that the tweezers was the beak that had the most offspring. They have 22 in total. Second most was scissors and they had 15. The last two were binder clips and spoon with 11 and 8. The tweezers was in the best beak for that specific society with that food because it beak all the other beaks with its quick grabbing beak. This data supported our claim because individuals with better traits leave more offspring. 

Two errors that we had in our experiment were that some of the food was more collected in a specific area and should have been scattered around the table better. Another error we had is that I noticed that some people started before others and people ended at slightly different times. Due to these errors, in the future I would recommend to have a timer at every desk so people know exactly when to start and finish so the data is more accurate and also before every new round scatter the food equally around the middle of the table so everyone has a fair start. 

This lab was done to demonstrate how traits effect offspring and which traits are best for an environment. From this lab I learned about artificial and natural selection in "real life" which helps me understand the concepts better from the vodcasts. Based on my experience from this lab I can now understand how animals are genetically altered to fit their environment and society and there are always going to be winners and losers.